PSA 4 Jordan rookie tops Friday at $9,850

The most important card in modern basketball changed hands in a low-grade slab, with no bidding at all.

A 1986-87 Fleer #57 Michael Jordan rookie in a PSA 4 holder sold for $9,850 on eBay Friday, August 21 — the top qualifying single-card Jordan sale we tracked that day, and the day’s highest price. It was a fixed-price listing that drew no bids.

Why it matters

The 1986-87 Fleer #57 is the recognized Jordan rookie, the card the rest of the basketball market prices itself against. At PSA 4 you are buying the card rather than the grade — this is the entry point into the most important card in the modern hobby, and it still costs five figures.

By the numbers

• $9,850 — the top tracked sale Friday. A fixed price, 0 bids.
• 20 confirmed paid sales, $27,384.30 — median $675.00.
• 7 of 27 qualifying sales were accepted best offers, carrying $4,797.99 that nobody can confirm was paid.

Zoom in

The day’s most expensive card attracted zero competition, and the day’s most contested card was one of its cheapest. A 1993-94 Topps Finest Jordan drew 21 bids and closed at $312.75. Bidding activity and price live in completely different parts of this market: the five-figure cards move at a number one seller sets, while the competition happens three zeros down.

Reality check

• No comparable-sale multiple here. This is a backfill edition and no comp baseline was computed for the lead card. We are not estimating one after the fact.
• A $3,850 1987-88 Fleer #59 sold in a BCCG holder — a different Beckett label from BGS. Our parser records no PSA, BGS or SGC grade for it, and we are not treating it as equivalent to one.
• One day is not a trend.

What's next

Watch whether low-grade Fleer #57 copies keep clearing near $10,000, which would say more about the floor under the Jordan rookie than any gem-grade sale does. Sunday’s Jordan sales are also covered.

How we track this

RazMania monitors completed eBay sales daily, filtering out multi-card lots, reprints, and cross-listed items to isolate genuine single-card sales. This is a backfill edition, published after the fact and dated to its sales day of August 21, 2026 rather than presented as same-day. Both data pulls for this day returned an identical 41-row set, so the day is reproducible. Best-offer sales are reported separately because eBay publishes the asking price on those, not the settled figure. No comparable-sale baseline was computed for this edition. eBay reports sold date, not sold time.